Failure Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

— Nicole Brossard

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do not see…

— Jennifer duBois

“An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence.” We’re blind to our blindness.”

— Steven Johnson

Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.

— Heinz von Foerster

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't…

— Noam Chomsky

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

— Daniel Kahneman

Our minds only process what they can understand. If this is true, how much is there that we can't see?

— Anonymous

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

— William Poundstone

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner…

— D.T. Suzuki